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Hinweise für Autoren 2/5 The European Journal of Health Psychology strives to promote theory and practice in the analysis of psychological approaches to health and disease. The aim is therefore to publish high quality empirical or experimental research as well as sound practice-oriented articles, current methodological developments, and comprehensive critical reviews of the scientific literature. 1. Manuscript Submission. Manuscripts, including Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM), should be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/zgp. The cloudbased manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system provides a comfortable working. The system supports a wide range of file formats (Word files preferred, please submit figures as TIFF files in a resolution of 300 dpi). Please do not submit print copies of your manuscript. The submitted manuscript will be edited by the Editor-in-chief who decides, based on the expertise of two external reviewers (Short Reports: one reviewer), if the manuscript can be accepted, if it needs a revision, or if it must be rejected. The Editor-in-chief and the Associate Editors are responsible for the journal s Editorial Section. Only papers that have not previously appeared in or are currently under consideration for another publication can be considered for publication. The journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions. The title page will be removed from each paper by the editor before submitting to reviewers. Authors are responsible for removing clues to the authors identity from the rest of the manuscript and cover letter. Please submit tables and figures via Editorial Manager as separate files. Figures must be supplied in a form suitable for reproduction: (preferably tif format). With the acceptance of the manuscript and its publication by Hogrefe Verlag the exclusive publishing right is transferred to the publisher including photo-mechanical and similar processes and is valid for all languages and countries. Please note that for the publication of your manuscript a Declaration of Originality is required. Please fill out and sign the form on the journal s web page at www.hogrefe.de/j/zgp and send it to the Editor-in-chief. 2. Types of articles. European Journal of Health Psychology publishes the following types of articles: Original Articles may be up to 52,000 characters including tables, figures, and references; Review Articles should not exceed 80,000 characters including tables, figures, and references; Short Reports (about health programs, about the development of measurement variables and alike) may be up to 16,000 characters in total; Commentaries and Book Reviews. Please note that electronic supplementary material (ESM) is not included in the word count. 3 Manuscript Format. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). In particular, statistical and mathematical copy, as well as references and their text citations, should conform to the Publication Manual. Authors should follow the guidelines of the APA Manual regarding style and nomenclature. It is recommended that authors who are not native speakers of English have their papers checked and corrected by a native-speaker colleague before submission. Standard US American spelling and punctuation as given in Webster s New Collegiate Dictionary should be followed. For further instructions please watch the APA Online Tutorial for Compulsory Reference Style on the journal s web page at www.hogrefe.de/j/zgp. 4. Electronic supplementary material (ESM) may be files that were used to carry out the research (such as datasets) or additional items that are not essential for inclusion in the full text but would nevertheless benefit the reader. Being electronic, ESM can also include items that cannot, at this time, be produced in print form. ESM will be published online as received
Hinweise für Autoren 3/5 from the author(s) without any conversion, testing, or reformatting. They will not be checked for typographical errors or functionality. The responsibility for the content and functionality remains entirely with the author(s). Hogrefe Verlag does not provide technical support for the creation or viewing of the supplementary files. If necessary, authors should seek the assistance of their local IT department. Like the manuscript, ESM should be original and not previously published. If previously published, it must be submitted with the necessary permissions. Note that the ESM files, just like the article itself, are permanent records and may not be altered once they have been published online. Submission: ESM files will be subjected to peer review along with the article itself. The number of ESM files you submit should be limited to 10. The file size should be kept as small as possible, not exceeding 10 MB in total. All file formats are accepted with the exception of executable files (e.g.,.exe,.com, or.msi). Commonly used file formats that are accessible by most readers are preferred. Following the online instructions, submit the ESM files in a single zip file separate from the other files that are part of your submission. Citation in manuscript: All ESM files must be referred to with in-text citations (as for tables, figures, and appendices) and should be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text. Follow the example: For more information, listen to the audio file in Electronic Supplementary Material 1. or: (listen to the audio file in Electronic Supplementary Material 1) or: (the audio file is provided in Electronic Supplementary Material 1) If appropriate, you may combine several ESM elements into a single file. For example: See Tables 1 3 in Electronic Supplementary Material 1. Include a section headed Electronic Supplementary Material at the end of your article before the reference section. List all files in the order in which they are cited in the text. Provide a title for each ESM file along with the file name. Optionally, you may also provide a short description for each file (max. 20 words). Follow the example: ESM 1. Audio file (utterancesparticipants.mp3). (= title and file name) This audio file contains utterances of the study participants. (= description of file) ESM 1. Tables 1 3 (tables1-3.xlsx). (= title and file name) The tables show additional p-values, weather variables, and demographic characteristics. (= description of file) Make sure that the file names listed here match the names of the submitted files. Please note that only the title and the description will appear in the article; the file name will not. It is for reference purposes only. 5. Copyright Agreement. By submitting an article, the author confirms and guarantees on behalf of him-/herself and any co-authors that the manuscript has not been submitted or published elsewhere, and that he or she holds all copyright in and titles to the submitted contribution, including any figures, photographs, line drawings, plans, maps, sketches, tables, and electronic supplementary material, and that the article and its contents do not infringe in any way on the rights of third parties. The author indemnifies and holds harmless the publisher from any third-party claims ESM will be published online as received from the author(s) without any conversion, testing, or reformatting. They will not be checked for typographical errors or functionality.
Hinweise für Autoren 4/5 The author agrees, upon acceptance of the article for publication, to transfer to the publisher the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article and its contents, both physically and in nonphysical, electronic, or other form, in the journal to which it has been submitted and in other independent publications, with no limitations on the number of copies or on the form or the extent of distribution. These rights are transferred for the duration of copyright as defined by international law. Furthermore, the author transfers to the publisher the following exclusive rights to the article and its contents: a. The rights to produce advance copies, reprints, or offprints of the article, in full or in part, to undertake or allow translations into other languages, to distribute other forms or modified versions of the article, and to produce and distribute summaries or abstracts. b. The rights to microfilm and microfiche editions or similar, to the use of the article and its contents in videotext, teletext, and similar systems, to recordings or reproduction using other media, digital or analog, including electronic, magnetic, and optical media, and in multimedia form, as well as for public broadcasting in radio, television, or other forms of broadcast. c. The rights to store the article and its content in machine-readable or electronic form on all media (such as computer disks, compact disks, magnetic tape), to store the article and its contents in online databases belonging to the publisher or third parties for viewing or downloading by third parties, and to present or reproduce the article or its contents on visual display screens, monitors, and similar devices, either directly or via data transmission. d. The rights to reproduce and distribute the article and its contents by all other means, including photo-mechanical and similar processes (such as photocopying or facsimile), and as part of so-called document delivery services. e. The right to transfer any or all rights mentioned in this agreement, as well as rights retained by the relevant copyright clearing centers, including royalty rights to third parties. 6. Offprints. After online publication, the corresponding author will receive an automatic alert from the Hogrefe Journal Platform econtent containing a link that will allow you to get free online access to your published article. This e-offprint is provided for the author s personal use, including for sharing with coauthors (see also Guidelines on sharing and use of articles in Hogrefe journals at http://hgf.io/sharingguidelines). 7. Guidelines on sharing and use of articles in Hogrefe journals. Terms of use Articles from Hogrefe journals may be shared by faculty for teaching and training purposes at any time, as long as reasonable measures are taken to not allow open sharing on the internet. A typical journal article may be available in various versions: (1) the manuscript as originally submitted to the journal and before peer review (submitted manuscript); (2) the manuscript as accepted by the journal after peer review (accepted manuscript); (3) the final, approved and published version (version of record). Submitted manuscript (before peer review): The manuscript of the article as originally submitted to the journal may be shared at any time. It should be labelled with the date the manuscript was prepared and should also include a statement that the manuscript in this form has not yet been accepted for publication.
Hinweise für Autoren 5/5 Accepted manuscript (after peer review): The manuscript version accepted by the journal for publication may be shared as follows: On authors personal websites, in their own institutional repository, and in not-for-profit subject-based repositories, subject to an embargo period (1) of 12 months after publication in the respective journal issue or (2) that is in accordance with and results from regulatory and legal obligations. In scholarly communication networks (SCNs): may be shared within private research groups until the embargo passes, and thereafter publicly in SCNs. With individuals upon request for personal use: may be shared at any time. As part of a grant application or submission of a thesis or doctorate: may be shared at any time. The accepted manuscript version that is shared should include a DOI link to the version of record, as well as the publisher s copyright line in the form [journal title], [volume no.], [issue no.], [year] by [publisher s name], and a statement that This version of the article may not completely replicate the final version published in [journal title]. It is not the version of record and is therefore not suitable for citation. Final published article (version of record): The final version of the article as published in the journal (version of record) may not be posted on websites or in repositories or shared in scholarly communication networks (SCNs) except with the express written permission of the publisher. Changing or modifying the article, and reproducing, distributing, or licensing the article in whole or part for commercial purposes, are not permitted. The version of record may, however, be shared at any time as follows: With individuals upon request for personal use As part of a grant application or submission of a thesis or doctorate 8. Hogrefe OpenMind. Hogrefe provides an optional open access publication model for authors whose institutions or funding bodies mandate or who desire immediate gold open access publication. For details, see www.hogrefe.com/openmind. April 2016